920 nm optically pumped semiconductor vertical external-cavity surface emitting laser (OPS-VECSEL) has an important application in laser display. We constructed and optimized a 920 nm OPS-VECSEL with active region of In0.09Ga0.91As quantum well (QW) system pumped by 808 nm laser diode module. By the finite element method, self-consistent solutions of the semiconductor electronic and optical equations are realized to calculate the characteristics parameters of OPS-VECSEL. The performances of device especially the mode, the threshold and the optical-optical translation efficiency were analyzed by dealing with different number of QWs (1, 2 and 3) in one period, QW depth, barrier width, the component and dimension of the non-absorption layer. We chose an improved structure of them. On this basis, we ameliorated the number of QW periods and the simulation showed that in order to obtain high performance device, the choice of the number of QW periods must be cautious.
